"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

That's a pretty good explanation, but what's your point? I will guess you are positing that the curent administration is headed toward oligarchy. Is that right? if so, I think you are mistaken.

Actually we are a democratic republic...we elect, not appoint, most of our leaders.

Main Entry: re·pub·lic Pronunciation: \ri-ˈpə-blik\ Function: noun Etymology: French république, from Middle French republique, from Latin respublica, from res thing, wealth + publica, feminine of publicus public — more at real, public Date: 1604 1 a (1): a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2): a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1): a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2): a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c: a usually specified republican government of a political unit <the French Fourth Republic>

My point is if we don't change the direction our country is going with all the debt financed expansion borrowing huge sums of money from other countries, we will end up a banana republic. And I'm not talking republican vs. democrat here. It's more individualists ideas vs. centralists ideas, I am an individualist and I can see where the road leads following centralist ideas...

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